Upon seeing the Altar, Arthur knew that he had found what the resident Mage had asked him for.
"This doesn't look all too good. The forums mentioned to be careful with this place." Arthur muttered and first took a look around the hall.
The hall had crumbling walls and debris fallen all over the place. If one didn't pay attention, they could easily trip and fall which could cause one to take damage or in worse cases, break a bone and get a debuff.
This was actually rather common during the start of the game and many players faced these unexpected setbacks. In fact, it was said that even after six years of the game's launch, the players had still not discovered all the debuffs that existed in it.
Broken bones was one of the first major debuff they would face. And with how realistic the game was, one could break it easily at the starting levels. There were even some insane players that tried to intentionally break their bones so as to let them recover and grow stronger.
This was something that could work in the real world, but in game, since a player could recover quickly once they logged out and logged in while being in a safe zone, it just turned out to be a waste of time.
After looking around a bit, Arthur was sure that there seemed to be no danger lurking.
"Strange…" he said not finding any enemies here.
He moved towards the altar next, feeling as if its red glow was getting brighter the closer he got to it. And when he was standing right in front of it, the altar was glowing like a lava lamp!
The red runes on it flickered and alternated, while a few lines started to appear on the top. These red lines took form of various patterns before finally settling in a circle and diamond shape that were concentric.
Arthur extended his hands towards it and placed it on the altar, making the lines change.
Flicker!
The lines seemingly molded around his hands, before a small indent appeared at the center of the altar.
"There it is…" Arthur noticed a small statue rising from the indent.
The statue was barely the size of a finger, but was intricately carved. It seemed to be made out of a black stone that had hints of red speckled throughout its body. It faintly looked like there were cracks on it through which the red was shining through.
Wrapping his fingers around the statue, Arthur lifted it from the indent, alert for any unexpected change. His nerves were tense and he was ready for more danger, but nothing really happened.
"This is certainly not what the forums said. Even the number of enemies coming here were less. Is the time difference between original quest and my current one changing the quest to this extent?" Arthur couldn't help question the authenticity of the information he had.
Even if the change was favorable to him, it was still a matter of having concrete information. After all, he didn't know if these changes would snowball into something great later on.
Letting out a sigh, Arthur simply decided to go with the flow and get out of here fast.
"Let's just get this over with…" Arthur looked at the small statue and used the Inspect skill.
>Inspect Skill Successful!<
>Target: Esoteric Statue<
But once he saw the information he furrowed his brows.
"That's all?" Arthur said in a low voice.
But as if mocking him, the quest notification finally popped up.
>Quest updated<
>You've discovered an Esoteric Statue hidden within the ruins. Take it back to the Resident Mage for further appraisal.<
"We're not done here though." Arthur shook his head.
He had seen the vague hints in the quest information as well as knew a lot more from the forums. This was not the only thing that was hidden in the Ruins. Or rather, this was just one of the things that was hidden here.
"There's still the other section I need to find. But to access that, I need something else… I need some extra help." Arthur said with a smile.
This part of the quest was perhaps going to be the most dangerous part. He would have to take a detour for this first and get a certain someone to 'open' the way for him.
With that in mind, Arthur returned the way he had come from. He ran all the way back to save as much time as possible and left the ruins without looking back. Arthur now needed to look for a certain enemy that he had a quest for already.
>Quest Updated: Hunt for Razer Tooth Boar!<
>The Razer Tooth Boar is nearby, please hunt it and obtain its meat for the beggar<
"Ah good! I knew they wouldn't make it too hard this early on." Arthur was pleased.
When one did certain quests like hunting beasts, they often needed to spend time searching for them first. But in some of the early quests, there would be a notification when one was within a certain range of the quest target.
Of course, one still needed to have some skill to find the said target, but it did make it a lot better than searching blindly for a long time.
'Finding its tracks shouldn't be that hard.' Arthur started to look for boar tracks around him.
Thankfully with how the Razor Tusk Boar acted, there were plenty of clues nearby.
Just a few meters from him, Arthur could see a tree that had its bark gouged out. And right next to the tree, he could see a few trampled bushes.
"Found ya!" Arthur smiled and inched towards it.
There were deep hoof tracks that were heading towards the east. Arthur followed them and soon chanced upon a large beast that was seemingly digging for something in the ground. It used its large razer sharp tusks to skillfully dig through the ground and pull out tubers.
"There's the big guy," Arthur said in a low voice as he gazed upon his target.
>Inspect successful!<
——
Target: Razer Tusk Boar
Rank: Rare
Level: 10
HP: 100%
MP: 100%
——
Having found the Razer Tusk Board, Arthur knew the battle was not going to be easy.
'It's more likely for me to die if I fight it head-on. I certainly don't want to die this early…' Arthur thought to himself as a strategy formed in his mind.
He already had a rough plan as to what he was going to do, but he didn't know if it would work exactly as intended. After all, what he was doing hadn't been done before!
That's right, this time the method of quest completion was something that was unique to Arthur. And this was only possible due to the information he had from his past life.
'The original player had waited to reach level ten and then hunted the Razer Tusk Boar. Even the Ruins were only explored at a higher level. But if my plan works then, I should be able to do it before that!' Arthur steeled his resolve.
The Razer Tusk Boar was no normal mob, either. It was a Rare ranked mob that was also at level 10. This added a new factor that could turn out to be difficult for Arthur.
The higher the rank of an enemy, the more dangerous they got even if their level was slow.
For example, if a level 10 common ranked and a level 8 uncommon ranked mob fought, the uncommon ranked mob would win most times. This was due to the additional skills and stats that the higher ranked enemy had.
The level disparity only grew the higher the ranks went.
It was said that a level 1 legendary rank mob would be able to kill a level 50 common rank mob. Such was the disparity between the ranks.
Of course, finding a level 1 legendary rank mob may as well be close to impossible. Most such mobs were either high leveled NPCs, bosses, or quest targets of legendary quests. There was no way their level would be low at all.
For Arthur, who was at level 7 and was trying to fight a rare ranked level 10, Razer Tusk Boar, this was going to be an uphill battle.
Still, his face showed no fear and his hands did not shake.
He picked up a stone from the ground and firmly held it in his hand. Then, looking towards the Razer Tusk Boar, Arthur aimed and threw the stone!
WHOOSH!
The stone soared through the air and stuck the head of the Razer Tusk Boar!
THUD!
[-0% HP]
[Attack Failed!]
"That was expected." Arthur knew a little stone was not going to hurt the thick hide of the Razer Tusk Boar that was further lined with tough bristles.
Grhh!
The Razer Tusk Boar let out an irritated sound and raised its head. It shook it lightly before turning around to see just who was it that was bothering it. And as soon as it spotted Arthur, its eyes went red.
ONKH!!!
Letting out an angry cry, the Razer Tusk Boar directly charged toward Arthur!
"Time to run!" As soon as Arthur knew that the boar had spotted him, he broke into a sprint.
His improved stats were coming in handy here, especially his agility which he had raised by two points letting it reach 7. If not for that, he might be a lot slower. Nonetheless, even with his stats, it was still not enough for him to outrun the Razer Tusk Boar.
In fact, the beast was already catching up to him, reducing the distance between them. Its hooves left deep imprints on the ground, a mark of its weight while its hide jiggled lightly as it ran at a great speed.
It was low to start, but now that it had picked up momentum, it didn't look like it would stop anytime.
"Shit!" Arthur looked back and saw that the distance between him and the Razer Tusk Boar was just a few meters.
He didn't lose focus though and kept on running without stop. But soon, an obstacle stood in his way, a large boulder.
"Let's see who's tougher, you or this rock!" Arthur taunted, before vaulting over the boulder.
With his familiarity of the game and his character, it wasn't difficult for him to do such a maneuver. This was one of the reasons why he had spent some time calibrating his character at the time of creation, after all.
Though for new players, doing something like this would only end up getting them injured.
Arthur skillfully flipped over the boulder, before sliding down the back.
Thud!
Without breaking his tempo, Arthur continued running.
'Here it comes, three… two… one—'
BAM!
The Razer Tusk Boar crashed into the boulder at full speed, cracking it apart!
"Guess you are tougher than the boulder…" Arthur said, taking a look.
The boulder crumbled into small rocks, as the Razer Tusk Boar shook its head a little.
>Razer Tusk Boar has crashed into a boulder!<
>Environmental Damage has been inflicted!<
[-5% HP]
"Hahah! It works!" Arthur laughed out loud, seeing the beast's folly.
This was one of the weaknesses of the Razer Tusk Boar. While it was a strong beast, physically, mentally it was rather weak. It had very little intelligence in the first place, and once it was enraged, even that was thrown out of its thick skull.
Thus, the best way to fight it for physical fighters was to simply dodge and inflict damage when it missed its target. Of course, the best way to kill the beast was to use non-physical attacks like magic or mental attacks.
But those weren't something Arthur could find here in the newbie village.
One could only use magic when they switched to a magical class and that was needed for one to reach level 10 and leave the village. If they left the village, they wouldn't be able to return and thus the quest would be automatically failed.
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